Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and The Fatal Conceit
Authors: Leeson, Robert
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This tenth part of Robert Leeson's collaborative biography of Friedrich August von Hayek explores Hayek’s thought on the free market and democracy. Using an unparalleled array of archival materials, Leeson reconstructs Hayek’s thinking as the notorious economist and his acolytes set about reshaping the post-war economic order. Darker areas of Hayek’s thought are also explored, including the influence of eugenics on his thought and his support for radical right-wing dictatorships in South America.
Leeson concludes this volume with a collection of chapters written by eminent scholars of Hayek. These chapters cover subjects as diverse as Hayek’s influence on scholars of Darwinian evolution, his views on psychology, and cultural evolution.
- About the authors
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Robert Leeson has published numerous articles in journals including the Economic Journal and Economics and History of Political Economy. In addition to writing and editing nineteen books, he is the co-editor (with Charles Palm) of The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman. He has been Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University, USA since 2005, National Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution since 1995 and Adjunct Professor at Notre Dame Australia University since 2008. He has held other visiting positions at Cambridge University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University and the University of Western Ontario.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Fighting to Prevent the ‘World from Being Made Safe for Democracy’
Pages 3-41
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Eugenics and the Austrian Third and Fourth Generation
Pages 43-87
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Das Hayek Problem and Solution
Pages 89-129
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The Austrian Shadow and ‘The Slogan of Liberty’
Pages 131-173
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Hayek’s ‘More Effective Form’ Eugenics?
Pages 177-223
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
- Book Subtitle
- Part X: Eugenics, Cultural Evolution, and The Fatal Conceit
- Authors
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- Robert Leeson
- Series Title
- Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-61714-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-61714-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-61713-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-87142-4
- Series ISSN
- 2662-6195
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 498
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